PrepTest 139, Section 3, Question 10
When Jayne Hinds Bidaut saw her first tintype,(425 more words not shown)
Information in the passage most(9 more words not shown)
- AWhat are some(8 more words not shown)
- BWhat is the(14 more words not shown)
- CWhat are the(10 more words not shown)
- DWhat effect is(9 more words not shown)
- EWhat were the(17 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
Separate what the account mentions from what it actually explains. It names several old processes and photographers, but it gives much clearer information about why newer techniques displaced older ones. We can answer a question only if the requested detail is supplied, not merely because its topic appears nearby.
Working the answers
- A
The examples are methods being revived. We are not given a list of nineteenth-century techniques that no one has brought back.
- B
The plate is iron, but the question asks about the coating applied to it. The emulsion can create a raised surface; its chemical composition is not specified. Knowing the material beneath a coating does not identify the coating's ingredients.
- C
Pinhole cameras are mentioned as part of the movement, but no named contemporary photographer is identified as using them. Bidaut's and Estabrook's specific examples involve other processes.
- D
Coating paper with egg whites is on the list of revived methods. The particular effect of that coating is not explained.
- ECorrect
The fourth paragraph says the replacements were easier and less costly to use, quicker, and more reliable (paragraph 4). Those are the perceived advantages that explain why many earlier processes became obsolete.
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